Family fun with Sleeping Beauty

The evergreen tale of the beautiful princess, who is cursed at her christening by the wicked fairy in Janice Honeyman’s “pantomime of your dreams”, Sleeping Beauty, is onstage at The Mandela at Joburg Theatre until December 30. This will be the first time the pantomime Sleeping Beauty has been staged at Joburg Theatre since 2002.

On her 18th birthday, the Princess Aurora-Adora will prick her finger on a spinning wheel and die.  But our Good Fairy Floradora Daisy offers some hope – she changes the spell to ensure that the princess won’t die, but will fall into an enchanted sleep for one hundred years from which she will only awake if kissed by the one she loves, Prince Harry Hunkador the Handsome!

Janice Honeyman promises that “Our Sleeping Beauty will bring the pure magic of pantomime once again to Joburg, mixed with sheer spectacle, special effects, laughter, outrageous puns, double-entendres and the most popular of contemporary music, mixed together with some classic melodies always associated with this story. Not to mention the giant spider, the fateful spinning wheel and That Kiss!”

After a two-year absence from the panto tradition, the most beloved of all South African panto stars, Tobie Cronjé, returns to grace the Joburg stage with his over-the-top portrayal of Dame Nora Nursey.

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Bookings are exclusively through joburgtheatre.com or by calling 0861-670-670.